Software Engineering Manager

Job description

At DraftKings, AI is becoming an integral part of both our present and future, powering how work gets done today, guiding smarter decisions, and sparking bold ideas. It’s transforming how we enhance customer experiences, streamline operations, and unlock new possibilities. Our teams are energized by innovation and readily embrace emerging technology. We’re not waiting for the future to arrive. We’re shaping it, one bold step at a time. To those who see AI as a driver of progress, come build the future together. The Crown Is Yours As a Software Engineering Manager, you'll lead a high-impact backend platform team building foundational technology that powers DraftKings Engineering at scale. You'll balance people leadership, technical direction, and delivery while partnering across the organization to develop reusable services and capabilities that support multiple products and business verticals. You'll own a forward-looking platform roadmap focused on scalability, reliability, developer experience, and operational excellence while developing a high-performing engineering team. What You'll Do Lead all aspects of day-to-day operations for an Engineering team, including planning, prioritization, execution, delivery, and team rituals. Build and develop a high-performing team through hiring, onboarding, coaching, feedback, performance management, and career development. Own your team’s platform roadmap and priorities, balancing stakeholder commitments with long-term scalability, reliability, extensibility, and developer experience. Collaborate cross-functionally with stakeholders across DraftKings to understand product strategies, integration needs, technical constraints, and future growth plans. Identify shared needs and translate them into reusable services, APIs, tools, and self-service capabilities that accelerate delivery and reduce duplicated engineering effort. Facilitate architectural discussions and design sessions, guiding decisions around service contracts, platform standards, integrations, migrations, and technical tradeoffs. Serve as the technical point of accountability for your team and dive into code reviews, architecture decisions, or complex troubleshooting when needed. Promote engineering and operational excellence across the platform, championing reliability, performance, scalability, observability, security, documentation, automation, and continuous improvement. What You'll Bring Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or any suitable combination of education, experience, and training. At least 2 years of experience managing software engineering teams, driving technical excellence and supporting individual development. Experience leading platform, infrastructure, shared-services, or developer-enablement teams that support multiple products or business areas. A proven track record of developing technical roadmaps that balance stakeholder needs with scalability, reliability, extensibility, and developer experience. Strong cross-functional leadership skills, with experience aligning stakeholders, managing competing priorities, and influencing across teams. Proficiency in at least one object-oriented programming language, such as C# or Java, with hands-on experience using modern .NET technologies. Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, message brokers such as Kafka, and cloud infrastructure and services, especially within AWS. Experience operating production systems, including observability, incident response, capacity planning, cost optimization, and continuous reliability improvements. Join Our Team We’re a publicly traded (NASDAQ: DKNG) technology company headquartered in Boston. As a regulated gaming company, you may be required to obtain a gaming license issued by the appropriate state agency as a condition of employment. Don’t worry, we’ll guide you through the process if this is relevant to your role. The US base salary range for this full-time position is 160,700.00 USD - 200,900.00 USD, plus bonus, equity, and benefits as applicable. Our ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The compensation information displayed on each job posting reflects the range for new hire pay rates for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range and how that was determined during the hiring process. It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.